Patrician McCarthy - The Face Reader: Discover Anyone’s True Personality Through Taoist Chinese Face Reading, Second Edition

Chapter Three: Using the Five Elements and Their Associations
to Read the Face

Chapter Five: Characteristics and Traits of the Five Element
Personalities

Chapter Eight: How to Interpret the Gifts and Challenges of the
Traits

PUBLISHING

The Face Reader: Discover Anyones True Personality Through Taoist Chinese Face Reading: Second Edition

by Patrician McCarthy

Copyright Patrician McCarthy, Second Edition, 2013

Published by Tao House Press

ISBN: 978-0-9898892-2-3

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Book and Cover design: MSI Tao House Press

The Face Reader, Copyright Patrician McCarthy, 2007

First published in the United States 2007 by Dutton, hardcover; Plume 2008, softcover

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AUTHOR

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

PATRICIAN McCARTHY is the first Mien Shiang expert to translate this ancient art and science for the mainstream American public. She founded The Mien Shiang Institute in Santa Monica, California in 2000 to teach the Taoist techniques of Medical Facial Diagnosis and Chinese Face Reading, and the Taoist Five Element Theory.

She has served on the faculties and boards of universities and colleges of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and in conjunction with the prestigious Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Los Angeles, established the first medical certificate program in Mien Shiang. For nearly thirty years, Patrician has taught workshops, seminars, and retreats for individuals and groups, medical students, health practitioners, lawyers, Olympic athletes, and corporations including Procter & Gamble, Old Navy, Gap, Inc., Mattel, KPMG, Turner Broadcasting, and many other Fortune 500 companies.

Patrician McCarthy has written extensively about Mien Shiang and the Taoist Five Elements. She has been featured in such diverse publications as The Huffington Post, Cincinnati Enquirer, Natural Health Magazine, and Womans World Magazine; iVillage.com , BusinessWeek.com ; and she has presented to varied forums such as 99u Conference, IONS Conferences, Renaissance Weekends, and The Committee of 200.

THE FACE READER: Discover Anyones True Personality through Taoist Chinese Face Reading is the 2014 Second Edition of her award winning book, originally published by Dutton 2007 and Plume 2008.

ALSO BY THE AUTHOR

The Taoist Five Elements: Bare Basics

Mien Shiang * Face Reading 101

In Your Element six book series:

In Your Element: All About The Taoist FIVE ELEMENT Personalities

In Your Element: Taoist Five Element WOOD Personality

In Your Element: Taoist Five Element FIRE Personality

In Your Element: Taoist Five Element EARTH Personality

In Your Element: Taoist Five Element METAL Personality

In Your Element: Taoist Five Element WATER Personality

PRAISE FOR THE FACE READER AND PATRICIAN MCCARTHY

Patrician McCarthy has helped us through some of the most significant transitions weve had to face in many years. I am indebted to her for her insight and expertise.

Ivy Ross, Executive VP of Design and Development, Old Navy, The Gap

The Face Reader is an excellent book. Patrician McCarthy has given us a blueprint for a fascinating new way of looking at ourselves and others.

Michael Edelstein, Executive Producer, Desperate Housewives

Learning Mien Shiang from Patrician McCarthy has been a valuable addition to my work in Traditional Chinese Medicine. It has become an integral part of my clinical practice and my teaching experience with students. I am grateful for everything she has taught me.

Keiko Cronin, L.Ac, Former Dean, Emperors College of Oriental Medicine

The Face Reader is a rare and exquisite book that is at one time deeply informative and artistically inspired. It is a guide to our deeper selves, and encourages much-needed compassion for the remarkable range of individual human differences.

Rubin Naiman, Ph.D, Author of Healing Night, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Program of Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona

Mien Shiang is a powerful tool for those who want to understand themselves and others. This book guides readers through the art of Mien Shiang to gain insight into the personalities, relationships and health issues in their life. I consider it a necessity for all clinicians.

Dr. Jeanne Kane, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Film Producer

DEDICATION

for Elliot
whose face I (still) love

AUTHORS NOTE

THE TAOIST PRINCIPLE OF THE Five Elements uses the metaphors of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water to explain the relationship, interaction, and ongoing change of everything in the Universe. The meaning of these Five Elements differs greatly from the Western definitions of the same words in that they each encompass the mind, body, and spirit aspects with which they are associated. To acknowledge this difference, these and other words associated with Taoism and Traditional Chinese Medicine are capitalized throughout the text of this book.

THE FACE READER : SECOND EDITION

THE FACE READER, SECOND EDITION , has

9 new categories:

Temples

Shen

Eyelids

Eye Whites

Iris

Eye Color

Seeing from the Eyes

Nose and the Spinal Column

Nostrils

14 new classifications:

Shape of the Eyebrows

Markings on the Yin Tong

Colors on the Yin Tong

Upper, Top, and Bottom Eyelids

Size, Set, and Shape of the Eyelids

Color of the Eye Whites

Size of the Iris

Movement of the Eyes

Color of the Cheeks

Colors on the Tip of the Nose

The Nose and Back Pain and Injury

Size and Shape of the Nostrils

Colors on the Philtrum

Colors and Textures of the Lips and Mouth

132 new feature descriptions (e.g., 9 new Eyebrow Shapes; 3 new Eye Shapes; 7 new Nose Shapes, and more), including each features

Taoist Five Element associations

Corresponding personality, character traits, and behaviors

Expanded Five Element Personality Tests

A complete, new chapter, The Three Zones of the Face

INTRODUCTION

MIEN SHIANG IS A NEARLY THREE-THOUSAND-YEAR-OLD TAOIST practice of an art and a science that literally means face (mien) reading (shiang) .

If you know Mien Shiang (pronounced myen shung) , you can determine anyones character, personality, health, wealth potential, social standing, and longevity simply by looking at his or her face.

We live in an age of high technology. No matter the distance, we can communicate with one another directly and instantly by telephone, e-mail, fax, even by satellite. Yet, when something momentous occurssuch as a job interview or a marriage proposalwe nearly always have to do it face-to-face.